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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-10
A VAST LAND CLAIM.
Kansas City Parties Think They Own 20
100000 Acres in New Mexico, Texas an

Kansas City Parties Think They Own TO-
100000 Acres ia New Mexico, Texas and
Colorado.
SANTA FE, n. NJ, March 2.-The recent
recording of certain instruments conveying
land titles to the Interstate Land Company,
with headquarters at Kansas City, Mo, as
may be seen by inspection Of the records at
Santa Fee, has brought to light the fact that
the Mexican Government some sixteen
years prior to the treaty of Guadalupe-Hi-
dalgo, made u concession of a vast empire
(79,OO0, 900 acres) situated partly in New
Mexico, Texas, Colorado and what is known
as Northumberland. This Mexican grant is
perfectly regular, and was made March IA.
1882. TO Juan Carlos Beales and Jose Man.
uel RoQEelIa, and hence antedates both the
Maxwell and Moro grants, and en-
braces those. October IL, 1892, Ro-
ouella conveyed all his interest 70 Beales,
who died in New York in 1879. His
heirs in 1885 conveyed the concession to
their present successors. This grant is ar
chived IN the City of Mexico, Saltillo and
Santa Fe. Its genuineness Is beyond dis
pute and there is no doubt as to its confirm
alton by the treaty OF Guadalupe Hidalgo,
leo in 1913. Unlike the Maxwell and Moro
grants the boundaries OF the Beales and
Royuella grant are fixed by Discriminate
points of astronomical observation and nat
cral monuments. These boundaries being
natural and immovable can not be changed
by the ingenuity OF modern device, such as
has been employed to enlarge the limits of
certain grants of more modern date.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-10
AN OLD VIOLIN.

Remarkable History of an Instrument.
Made in Germany In 1905.
Probably the oldest violin in Ulster
County is owned by John Goeller, of
Rondout Itwas manufactured in the
year 1900 in Germany. The old violin
has strange history. In 1920 the SEX
ton of an ancient cloister i'll Germany
found a violin in the garnet of the
building. 1t was covered with dust and
cobwebs. On the box was the date and
the makers name. The sexton, being
somewhat of Il musician, discovered
that the instrument he found was
a valuable one. He took it to young
Coolers grandfather, who was good
friend of his, and noted musician in
that part of Germany, and said:
Professor, here is. an instrument
that l found in the cloister garnet. Its
intrinsic value / know not, but that it
is worth a large sum L am convinced.
give it to you OH one condition, and
that is you will promise me never to let
it go out of the Cooler family"
The professor promised, and the
violin changed ownership. just pre-
vious to the old professors death, in
Germany, he sent the violin to his son,
George Cooler, now of Rondout, butt
at that time living in New York and
playing in the orchestra at the old
Chatham Street Theater. One night a
message reached Mr.. GOeller ut the
theater that the house where he lived
was on fire. His first thought was of
the old violin, which was in his bed-
roomo He made his way to the house
and found the house in flames!
Nothing daunted, and Mt the risk
of his life, he rushed into the burn
from the crowd in the street, who were
sure that he had gone to his death. A
minute later Mr.. Goeller, blackened
and scorched by smoke and flame,
from the house, bearing in hi9
hand the priced instrument. He sank
exhausted to the sidewalk. A by
seeing what Mr.. Goeller had
risked his life for, exclaimed:
"I'm a fool if the man didn't run the
risk of being burned to death for an old
fiddle
Mr.. Cooler believes TO this day that
the man who uttered the words had no
music in his soul. Ole Bull heard of
the violin, and made an effort to
purchase it. He was told that the in
strument was not for sale. After Mr..
Goeller moved to Rondout and his SON
John was large enough to handle
bow, he presented to him the instru-
ment, with the same instructions that
his father had given him, never to lett
90 out of the Goeller family.-KingstoH
IN. p Freeman.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-10
AnclENr eoLp-pIeeERs.
Renaar knbIe Ruins Found In Africa Among
the Euts of the Savages.

Renaax knbIe Ruins Found In Africa Among
the Euts OF the Savages.
Some way south OF the Zambesi river
there is large region, extending from
the sea nearly 400 miles inland. and
800 to 400 miles toward the south, ins
which ruins are constantly being dis
covered, proving that in prehistoric
times the country was inhabited by a.
civilized people. To-day only the
rudest black tribes inhabit this land,
save in a few places where the POrtu-
ouese have established. stations. The
little beehive huts OF the natives are
seen among massive ruins betOkening
a degree of architectural skill which
riy ais that of the ancient Aztecs. Our
knowledge of these ruins is still far
from perfect. Our earliest records OF
travels and trade on the east African
coast. extending back to the beginning
of the Christian era, do not mention
them. Only in recent years have the
travels of Selous, Erskine, Mauch,-
Baines, Mohr and O'Neill revealed tous
the monumental evidence this country
contains.
The coast town Sofala is shown on all
Carl Mauch found extensive ruins re-
markable for their enduring nature and
strange shapes. There are partly ruined
walls, still thirty feet high and twelve
feet wide at the base, built Of small
hewn blocks of granite. In these
walls, some times fifteen to twenty
feet from the ground, are ilnbedded
one end of blocks of stone eight
cen to twenty feet long, which
were evidently used to support CALLER
les. Here and there, built in the walls
or standing by themselves, are round
stone towers which evidently rose tc
heights of thirty to fifty feet. Similar
masses of masonry are found as far az
three hundred and fifty miles inland
and little north near the coast.
1t is not positively known yet who
built these ancient structures. Nc
trained archeologist has visited them,
and no search has yet been made for
the inscriptions, though O'Neill says
he has no doubt from what he has re-
Gently heard that there are numerous
inscriptions on the ruins about Manica
All these ruins are surrounded by sur
face gold mines. 1t is believed that all
this country was occupied some time
before the Christian era by a great
colony, probably of PhGnician origin,
and thai Its chief occupation was gold
mining.
Mr.. O'Neill says that these numerous
ruins are nearly rs well preserved as
those of Assyria. Some day, no doubt,
they will be Systematically studied.
Their existence shows cOnclusively that
a large region in inner Africa, now
given up to savage men and wild beasts
was subject many centuries ago to the
control of people who were consider
ably advanced in the arts of civiliza-
tion.-M Y. Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-10
THE SOUTH.

GOVERNOR WILSON, of West Virginia. has
rendered the United States Senatorship to
d. b. Lucas, of Jefferson County, who was
one of the Democratic ''kickers' in the re-
cent senatorial contest, and he has ac-
cepted.
WOODBURY. q PORTS, general merchants
OF Prescott, Ark, have assigned. Assets
$4,000; liabilities, $4,000.
BRITToN & MAYsoN, cotton merchants of
New Orleans, have assigned. Assets. $50
900; liabilities, $4,000.
r. D. ARMOUR says company has been
organized, with several million dollars cap
ital, to erect oil mills in the South
FIRE in Wymbish & Crawley's general
store at South Boston, Va, recently, caused
loss OF S2OO.OO0; insurance, SSS, 600
THE steamboat W. II. Gardner was burned
on the Tomblgbee river, three miles below
Gainesville, Ala, on the 1st. Twenty lives
were lost, the boat being totally destroyed
with its cargo
IHE three children of a negro named
Burton, living near Mariana, Ark, were
burned to death the other morning.
GENERAL ]. j. FINLEY, of Ocala, Fla. has
been appointed by Governor Perry United
States Senator to succeed Hon. Charles w.
Jones, whose term has expired
Two HUNDRED Mormon converts. gath
cred In various parts of the South. left
Chattanooga, Tenn, recently, for Utah.
JAMES M. COLLINS, an extensive land
owner and planter in Arkansas, died on his
plantation, four miles from Fort Smith. re-
Gently, OF pneumonia. He owned thousands
OF acres OF the finest bottom land in the
country, and was a man of considerable
prominence, and was much esteemed
throughout the South.
The mill of the Wilmington (Del.) Jute
Company was destroyed By fire the other
night Loss, so, 900.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-10
KICKED INTO THE STREET.
Foreign DiplOmates Discover BlackIeg
at IA Card PARTY.

Foreign DIplOmateS Discover a Bl:ackIeg
at Card Party.
WASHINGTON, March "A correspondent
says: Il hear that certain members of the
diplomatic corps have been made victims of
a card sharper. About two years ago a
man claiming to be connected with num-
Der of newspapers, appeared above the
horizon and did his best to enter good So
ciety. He was tall fellow with gray hair
and long mustache, of which he was very
proud. Some of the correspondents have
looked up the newcomer record and found
that he had been connected with some very
peculiar transactions in Chicago. The word
was passed around and the entire corps
refused to have any thing to do with
him. Ho was made journalistic pariah
and the outcome has amply justified
the sharp-Scented newspaper men. Dur
ing his stay here this pariah became ac-
Quainted with number of the younger
members of the different legations. One of
them, a Japanese has been in the habit OF
inviting few of his friends to his room
every Saturday night to indulge in "a little
game of draw The pariah had been one
of the party for quite long time. He had
wonderful luck and, hear, carried away
great deal of money. Last Saturday the
game was in progress, and, as usual, the
parIah won all the large pots and lost very
few of the smaller ones. The host observed
that the pariah invariably won the largest
pots with aces. When it came his
turn to deal he looked over the
pack Of cards, but did not find
single ace, for the simple reason
that there was none there. Then the pa
riah began to show some signs of excite
ment. So did the remainder of the party.
After conclusively proving that the. pariah
had distracted the aces, the party resolved
itself into Committee of the Whole. The
pariah was called a 'blackleg, scoundrel
and u skin gambler then conducted to the
front door from which he was kicked into
the street,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-10
FEARFUL FATALITIES.

a Steamboat Burned on the TomblKbes
River and Many Lives Lost-FataI Mine
Explosion-Six Hundred Lost at Sea.
MOBILE, Ala, March 2.-The steamer, W.
II. Gardner. one of the largest boats plying
on the Tombigbee river from Mobile, was
burned yesterday afternoon three miles
below Gainesville, Sumter County, Ala
Captain f. s. Stone telegraphs from Epes,
Ala. that the boat is a total loss, together
with 464 bales Of cotton The loss of life IS
very large, as follows: c. Blackman, julie
Rembert and two children, Mrs. w. T.
Rembert and three children, Theodore L.
Graham, G. Rutes. Colored-John Bryant,
steward; Green Jenkins, Henry Ford, Hay
ward, Hutchinson, L. Lindsay, Virgil Jones,
Amos Harris, and three unknown persons.
Mrs. Rembert was the wife OF tho
clerk and part owner OF the boat,
and lived in Mobile. The remaining
whites were passengers living in the
Upper Tombigbee district. No details OF
the cause and progress of the fire have been
received. The Gardner was built five years
ago for the Tombigbee trade. She was
owned by f. S. Stone, S. c. Coleman and
w. I. Rembert, and was valued at 81, 600.
She was fully insured. The cotton was in
sured in local companies for $4,000. Mrs.
Rembert and her children lived in Demop-
oils, Ala, which is w. F. Rembert's homo,
and also the home of julie Rembert. w.
F. Rembert lives here most of his time.
Before making the trip he wrote his wife
to join him with his children at Demopolis
and making the trip up to the highest land
ing and return. 1t is supposed that he in
vited also his cousin julie and his two chill
dren, and it was intended to be pleasure
trip for the party. The negroes who lost
their lives are deck hands from Mobile, and
most of them have families.
FEARFUL MINE EXPLOSION.
PARIS, March Am explosion occurred
Yesterday in Beaubien collIeries at ST.
Etienne. 1t is reported that several hundred
miners were killed. Later advices state
that when the explosion occurred in the
Beaubien collieries, there were but eighty
men in the galleries. Six Of these were
rescued unhurt and four were taken out
more or less injured The seventy others
are supposed to be all dead. Other advices
from ST. Etienne say that there were lO4
men entombed in the mine and that forty
three have been recovered and sixteen
are dead.
SIX HUNDRED DROWNED.
SAN Francisco, March 2.-Advices by
the steamer Gaelic from Hong Kong state
that Chinese junk going from Hainan to
Siam was recently wrecked OF Soctray
coast. Out of 600 passengers and crew
aboard, only six were known to have es-
capped.
STEAMSHIP WRECKED.
LONDON, March 2.-The mail steamship
Valparaiso, from Liverpool for Valparaiso,
was wrecked to-day off Viga, Spain. The
vessel had on board 200 passengers, all of
whom, with the mails, were saved
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-10
TILE LATEST

IhE
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York. has re-
| moved General Shaler from his position as
president of the Board of Health. The in
dictments against Shaler, charging him
with corruption were dismissed.
Two officers and sixteen prlyates who re-
Gently revolted at Silistria were captured
and shot. The leaders in the revolt at
Rustchuk were ordered to be shot. Dur
ing the fighting at the latter place 100 were
killed and wounded The Bulgarian Gov
eminent obtained proof that the risings
formed part of a widely laid Zankoffite
plot.
THE Forty ninth Congress adjourned sine
die on the 4th. The usual scenes of disor-
der transpired in the House. Both branches
had an all-night session. During the two
sessions IL ,25o bills and 263 joint resolutions
were introduced in the House; in the Sen
! ate 3, 3o7 bills and lis joint resolutions were
introduced.
FATHER BEcKx, General of the Jesuits, is
dead.
HERR WEDDELL PREsDoRF was elected
President of the German RcicnStag. He
received 1874 votes; two ballots were cast
for DIR. Windthorst and ninety-nine were
cast blank.
n REPORT emanating from Paris was re-
Gently current to the effect that the Car
had given notice of his withdrawal from
the alliance of the three Emperors, resum-
ing freedom of action. The rumor was not
believed in diplomatic circles in Berlin and
Vienna.
FoUR armed Mexican soldiers recently
crossed the borders near Nogales, Ariz.,
and endeavored to make al arrest, when
Deputy Sheriff Speed arrested the Mexican
officer The soldiers then commenced fir
ing, which was re -urned by Americans.
The skir1nish lasted some time, the Next
cans recrossing the boundary with one OF
their number said to be MORALLY wounded.
Grave apprehensiors were felt over the af-
fair.
THE Red Star line steamer Waesland,
from New York for Antwerp, went ashore
on Goodwin sands, Eng, recently, in fog.
The passengers and crew were taken of by
a tug and landed at Deal The Waesland
was a screw steamer of 8, 521 tons, ard was
built at Glasgow ia 1867.
THE assets of the Bloomington (Ill.l Sc
curity Live Stock Insurance Company,
which failed recently, are practically
nothing. The risk held by the company foot
up 8, O0O, 000
QUITE sharp shock of earthquake was
felt at Augusta, Ga. about two a. H. on the
4th and another and slighter one about five
a. m Neither did any damage. 1t was also
felt at Charleston aud intermediate points.
The steampipe of the steamboat Fleet
wood broke recently near Lawrenceburg,
Ind, and three negroes were fatally scalded
FRANK w. FOSTER, town clerk and treas
urer OF Greenfield, Mass, is a defaulter to
the extent of S14 900, and has involved his
father, as indorser, to the extent of 5000
more. Foster did not falsify his accounts,
and apparently made no attempt TO conceal
the shortage. He was arrested
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-10
WASHINGTON NOTES.

IN the River and Harbor bill, as sent to
the President the appropriation for the Mis-
souri, river is fixed at S275, 900 and the Mis-
'sissippi at 81 10000.
TUE Secretary of the Interior has affirmed
the decision of the Commissioner of the
General Land Office dated May IL, 1885
holding for cancellation a list of about II GOO
acres of land in townships "a, 35 and So
north range west, the Reed City, Mich
district, claimed by the Jackson, Lansing q
Saginaw Railroad Company under acts of
Congress
SENATOR CocKRELL has reported adverse
~ bill to investigate the issue of fraudu-
lert land warrants and protect soldiers and
Sailors from loss thereby.
THE following hare been appointed by
the President Commissioners under the In
terstate Commerce law: w. II. Morrison,
of Illinois; Judge Cooley of Michigan;
General Bragg. OF Alabama, and w. r.
Cox, of North Carolina.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that the wife of Chinese laborer is not
permitted to enter the country under the
restriction act
DIR. SCHMIrr vow TAsERA. the new Aus
trian minister to the United States, left
Vienna on the I'd for Washington
PUBLIC PRINTER BENEDICT has been con-
firmed bv the Senate by vote of 81 to 19
THE Senate Committee on the District of
Columbia, at q special and very short meet
ing on the I'd, voted 20 report adversely
.upon the nomination of James c. Trotter,
Of Boston, colored, nominated to be Re-
corder OF Deeds for the District of Column
bia. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Har-
ris, Brown and Cheney; nays, Ingalls,. Pal
mer, Blackburn and Vance.
THE announcement from W ashing4on that
the HS1Se had receded and passed the Ed
snuads SILL caused great excitement and ra,
joeing among vessel owners and fishermen
ut Gloucester, Mass
The Preside Mt has approved the Military
Academy Appropriation and the Regular
Pension Appropl iation bills, the act to or
game q hospital corps of the United States
and the act In regar1 to the importation of
aaackerel during the spawning season
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-10
THE WEST.

ONE thousand employees of the Britton
iron and steel works at Cleveland, o., have
had their wages increased from ten 60 fif-
teen per cent
THF alleged certificate of the marriage of
Miss Van Zandt to anarchist Spies by proxy
has been returned to the Chicago county
clerk but will not be fled at present.
Two men and d boy were killed recently
by the falling of tree near Newark, o.
LATER reports of the county seat war at
Coronado, Kan, showed nine men shot on
the 9th. Six of them were Leoti men,
three of whom were killed and three fatal
ly wounded.
ALL the printers on the three English
dailies in Milwaukee, Wis, and all those in
every job office but one struck on the 1st
for advanced wages.
THE price of gas in Cincinnati has been
reduced by ordinance for the next ten
years from sl70 to s1.25 per 1000 feet.
THE snowfall in Minnesota during the
winter has been 6S11 inches. The snowfall
is unprecedented for the same period. The
winter has been exceptionally cold, ~ de
grees colder than the average of the win
tiers for the last twenty-five years.
THE brief prepared by Black, Solomon &
Zeisler in the Chicago anarchists case
covers 426 pages OF printed matter.
HENRY HEPPERT, son of a wealthy brewer
of Akron, o., has been sent to the peniten-
tlary for year Tor betraylng fourteen
year-old school girl.
FIRE in Pinckney, Mich, the other morn
ing destroyed five buildings, including the
post-office.
The pressmen and stereotypers of MI
waulkee, Wis, struck on the Sd in st pport
of the striking compositors.
THE other morning the big flour store
house of Pillsbury & Co., situated in South
east Minneapolis, Mimi, fell with terri
BILE crash. In it were stored about 10000
barrels of -four. The damage is vari-
ously estimated at from $4,000 to $50
OOO The same firm sustained loss from
similar cause January 5, when their
East side elevator fell splitting about CO. 600
bushels of wheat and wrecking part of the
building.
THE conferees on the bill to adjust the
land grants in Kansas reached an agree
ment on the Sd entirely satisfactory both to
Senator Plumb and Congressman Ander-
son. who were members of the Conference
Committee. Subsequently the Senate &C
cepted the bill as agreed upon.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-10

Miss Julia Malcolm, a school
teacher of New Haven, Conn, has ac-
cepted an offer of two hundred and
t-fty thousand dollars for land in Colo
RADIO, which was jokingly decided to her
several years ago by a friend who con-
sidercd it Hartford COssrG'sG
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-10
GENERAL.

In speaking on the currency question in
the House Of Lords, Premier Salisbury
took strong stand against bimetalism at
present.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-09
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY, AUGUST Q, 1884,

MONDAY, Aug. e-P. NJ
The stock market still drsys and develops fears OF
further manipulation II is not generally believed that
the large shorts have covered, and hence 1t is e1-
peced that they will resist any advance and are pre-
pared to take advantage Of spot TO which color OF
weakness can be given. II before there were any who
believed that larger shorts had covered todays
operations OF character which should spell the
delusion The market opened quiet with few European
orders for purchases of moderate amounts of certain
stocks When those executed. there was heavy
pressure to sell from the Newport contingent and the
returned yachtsmen OF the old bear " combination
And the sales not made In a manner which lndi
Gated desire to obtain the best possible prices at the
start on a new bear campaign, but on the contrary
the method indicated desire TO protect an old and I'M
Inundated interest Prices ratified sharply about
per cent with special attention directed to North
western and Lake Shore stocks After that followed
rally in which Western Union led by recovery OF fully
per cent Then succeeded dulness and another raid
which left prices at the close at about the lowest
figures OF the day. There absolutely no new de-
veopments either about tho IvesClncinnat Hamilton
and Dayton matter, the cable settlements. so opin-
ions and rmors supplied the absence Of facts with I'M
favorable surmises notable feature In the last ten
minutes the boards session was the hurried Offering
shares OF Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton STOCK
down per cent at time till at Az II found seeming
purchaser II the transaction real purchase and
sale the seller suffers loss of not less than $4,000 AS
the stock has been so dscreded by the recent pubca
tons that probably outside Of the ring could be
found to pun any figure it seems probable that
the transaction was part Of the mysterious game
which is being played The Ives matter is admitted to
be dead weight the speculaons and yet every one
admits that IL the worst that is suspected proves true,
il is OF no importance TO the general situation; II Will
not affect the earnings OF railroads teegraphs The
parties behind Ives and bis creditors seemed to be less
concerned about the outcome than are those who only
guess at the situation. . .
Government bonds were dull with the bids advanced
81 per for the 4l2s aud = per cent or the As BID
dnrs for the CURRENCY also la y higher. An
nexed are the closing quotations;